Ask HN: what is the most stupid line of code you saw?
Believe it or not, i just saw this:
`if (true === true)`
^^ Old PHP site.
`if (true === true)`
^^ Old PHP site.
Each line of HTML is generated like that :
$html.='<html>';
$html.='<body>';
$html.='The content';
$html.='</body>';
$html.='</html>';
The dev used this in every file, each file contain thousands of lines like that. Worst project i have ever seen, and i must work alone on it. FML.
Dumb mistakes I've seen include commented out error checking because of a reversed greater than sign and a SQL query that deletes the whole table before rebuilding the entire thing every day
The code was really awful, and that part hurt my eyes:
/* commented out code. <--- Yep. That was the actual comment.
and here was the code
seriously
*/
$array = array('z'=>12, 'o'=>43, 't'=>32, 'th'=>85, 'f'=>91, 'fi'=>42);
<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
Contradiction.
I think it is bad practice at least then, if not explicitly bad code, because it's needlessly overcomplicated. Why use the end tag when you're not switching contexts between php and html? After this line there's just another open tag and more code... it's a pointless way of writing php that makes it aggravating to read and edit.
enum BankID {
ONE = 1,
TWO = 2,
THREE = 3,
FOUR = 4
// add more if needed
};if( 1 == 1 ) cout << "it's true" << endl; else cout << "false" << endl;
Haha, 1==1
#python SQL injection paradise.
sql = 'SELECT * FROM %s' % tableif (obj instanceof java.lang.Object)
This is (was in Sun's time) an actual possible certification question and you are wrong, this CAN return false:
Object obj = new Object() {{ System.out.println(false); System.exit(0); }};
System.out.println(obj instanceof Object);if (failed) { return SUCCESS; }